Mark Lucas

Danville, Kentucky
Singer-Songwriter

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"If I could I surely would stand on the rock where Moses stood . . ."

BIOGRAPHY

Appalachian fiddler and Americana singer-songwriter. Story songs that explore dark corners of American folk history. Acoustic guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and Hammond organ in an unusual mix Solo Americana album, Dust, in 2010.

Also bass player and singer for roots group Billyblues for 10 years and four albums.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Americana/Roots, Singer/Songwriter

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Dark Thunder, I own my own publishing

Contact

Booking: www.brothermarkmusic.com
Administrative: ASCAP

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

b3 organ / bass / acoustic guitar / mandolin / piano / violin

INFLUENCES

Isaac Watts. The Sacred Harp. Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy. The mountain music and backyard string bands of an old Kentucky boyhood. My grandmother who played piano for the silent movies.

DAY JOB

writer

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

Interview/profile in January '08 American Songwriter.

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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07/14/2008 10:27 AM